Petro-Tech, Inc. v. The Western Company Of North America’s Empirical Analysis
824 F.2d 1349 · 1987
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 28 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Lightning Lube, Inc. v. Witco Corp. (1993), Kehr Packages, Inc. v. Fidelcor, Inc. (1991)
61 federal appellate · 28 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Pinkerton v. United States · United States v. Turkette
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Subsection (c)] was intended to govern only those instances in which an "innocent" or "passive" corporation is victimized by the RICO "persons," and either drained of its own money or used as a passive tool to extract money from third parties.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause Western is alleged to have attempted to benefit from its employees' racketeering activity, it is appropriate to allow the victims of that activity to recover from Western.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. William F. Lorenz and Karen M. Lorenz, His Wife Victor A. Czerny John Schmidt and Janice J. Schmidt, His Wife Marjorie Slapin Thaddeus E. Drake and Celia Drake, His Wife and Edith E. Berenkey Individually and on Behalf of a Class of Former Debentureholders Similarly Situated, in 92-3667 v. Csx Corporation (Formerly Chessie Systems, Inc.) the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and the Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. Ethel B. Savin, Individually and on Behalf of a Class of Former Debentureholders Similarly Situated, in 92-3694 v. Csx Corporation (Formerly Chessie Systems, Inc.) the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and the Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A · 787 F. Supp. 1480 - Casper v. Paine Webber Group, Inc.“It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise’s affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.